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Upcoming Canvas Changes 2025-01-17 User-Agent Header Enforcement Deprecation of limit Argument Deprecation of user.comment_bank_items_count Field 2026-02-21 Removal of X (formerly Twitter) App For more information, please see Instructure Enforcements, Deprecations, and Breaking Changes. Release notes outline upcoming…
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in the title of this document. Institutions are responsible for conducting…
Has anyone found gaps in their course analytics ? I'm currently seeing missing last view date, last participation date, and participations at overall course level, even though the same data is present at individual week and student level. Am also seeing truncated asset counts ie we are seeing only the global header counts,…
Dear Canvas Guru, Can someone tell me how the undelete function works on Canvas? With the undelete function, does it mean deleted items stay in some sort of recycle bin? if so, how long are the items stored there? Say I delete several items: - a file - a folder - a quiz - an assignment - an entire module (supposedly it…
In Spring 2025, the Center for Teaching Innovation launched the Canvas Course Spotlight — a program inviting students to spotlight specific aspects of their Canvas courses that positively impacted their learning. A Brief History of the Canvas Course Spotlight In Fall 2024, CTI surveyed Cornell faculty to learn about their…
I'd like to have a quiz posted for each class period for the whole semester. I know how to duplicate an assignment, but that requires deleting "copy" from each duplicate and changing the date for each assignment. Is there a way to duplicate the assignment like a repeating calendar event "repeats every M, W, and F until May…
How do I search all my rubrics without going to individual classes
I recently created a quiz where students give each other feedback on a game they have created. I set the quiz up as a stimulus question (with a link to the game as the stimulus) and then 6 questions for the students to answer based on the stimulus. I saved questions to the bank and used them in each of the stimuli.…
Hi All. I have been retroactively assigning captions to my images in Canvas and I noticed something strange. I have been adding the image captions within Canvas pages by clicking on “image options” and entering the information, saving the page. However, when looking at the “Files” view of the site, the captions are not…
I'm currently trying to do a quiz on Canvas but it says the service is unavailable due to maintenance. How long will the site be down?
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